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It's unclear to me why the US Congressmen are not escorted by big armed cops to push through obstacles to them exercising their legal rights, and instead everyone now defers to the guys with no uniforms or badges or name tags to determine what is and is not legal?

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Pro-tip: if you ever need to do actual translating (NOT asking google to convert whole texts from a language you don't know) & you need help figuring out the most idiomatic way to say something, Linguee.com is the best! I can enter a term & see different ways others have translated it. Lifesaver!

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Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people

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Today's complaint about the AI in education discourse: Too much of it is framed around a future that is going to happen to us, as opposed to seeing the future as something we may have some agency to shape. I reject the deterministic view of AI, particularly genAI. It's a tool, not our master.

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I'm sure no one cares really, but the NYT's David Sanger is the one who branded Trump's foreign policy "America First." Here it is from March, 2016:

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Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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White House is bragging about shutting down the asylum system which is the only way Border Patrol “releases migrants into the country.” They are bragging about stopping legal immigration. Border Patrol does not “release illegal migrants.” They release legal immigrants they have processed.

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Not a morning person - but woke up early & am psyched to work on my project. Yesterday’s big find: My leftist Jewish woman subject helped her famous partners write scripts but has no credits of her own on IMDB. Except: just found one! Mama wrote a Black History PBS special for her Black partner/

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ThreeTT jobs in history of medicine, science, and environment at Texas State University. One in Public history jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/sea...

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Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

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AI is not useful.

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I started volunteering as an immigration court watcher after reading an article about Brad Lander doing it. So much respect to him and all the folks standing up to bear witness and get in the way.

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Proud to have contributed to this excellent piece written by Kritika Agarwal for @historians.org AHA Perspectives back in 2016. I remember our conversation so well. Revisiting it today in light of the escalated violence & dehumanization, there is so much more to say…

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Melissa Hortman was only 55 years old. She had a lot more to do. It is so bitter and so sad that her life was taken - assassinated for fighting for what she believed in. It will now be up to us to carry on these fights.

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Banged out a cute little synopsis of the book I think I'm writing & am going to look it over again and clean it up before sending it on out!

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Interesting that I’m not seeing any reports of the “He’s An Asshole But The City Needs An Asshole To Stand Up To Trump” mayoral candidate doing any standing up to Trump re: the unjustified arrest of the sitting Comptroller

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This one goes out to all the people asking me what I have against Andrew Cuomo. This has been his M.O. for literally 48 years, except that in the 1977 (losing) mayoral campaign for his father, it was homosexuality, not antisemitism, that was the target of his last-ditch demonization campaign.

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Grateful that Brad Lander is using his experience to highlight the biggest outrage; that ICE is re-arresting people who have been 100% compliant with ICE and the courts, with the goal of unlawfully stripping them of a court hearing to juice Stephen Miller's deportation numbers.

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GO GET YOUR FUCKING PASSPORTS

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I had to go see the original thread here for myself. 😬

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A very depressing but eye-opening story from @voiceofsandiego.org about a Chinese college student and Tik-Toker from LA who ended up in immigration detention hell. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/06/17/h...

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NEW: New York Attorney General Letitia James on the arrest of NYC mayoral candidate and comptroller Brad Lander. “This is profoundly unacceptable. Arresting Comptroller Lander for the simple act of standing up for immigrants and their civil rights is a shocking abuse of power.”

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Unpaid work at the univ today. I’m off contract but did a favor for the chair & ran transfer orientation. Good karma back at me: one student asked a question which I’ve never gotten from a student here: “ you don’t happen to be related to @sepinwall.bsky.social, do you?” 🤯 😍#SisterlyNachas

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Ooh! Look what just came from @sunypress.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading it!

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For those outside NYC, Brad Lander isn’t just a mayor candidate, he’s also the NYC Comptroller—the chief financial officer and auditor of the biggest city in the country.

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Whoa! NYC mayoral candidate and current city Comptroller Brad Lander seemingly arrested at the NYC immigration court while attending to escort someone attending their hearing.

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ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

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I definitely have not made enough on my book to cover the cost of the index, let alone everything else.

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Unfortunately, authorship is its own reward. My first book has been on the market for fifteen years and has sold decently for an academic history, but I doubt I've earned enough in all that time to cover what I paid for the laptop I wrote it on.

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Excited to be waking up to work on my new book. It has a theme song 😆 - one version by Frank Sinatra and the other by Paul Robeson. Not a bad earworm to power me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Ip...

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We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

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And also: academic books rarely get advances. Royalties are generally 10%, sometimes AFTER a certain amount is sold. So if you hire someone for your index, you may lose money on your acclaimed book! (Or make $200 if you don’t!)

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NEW—After an innocent protester was shot and killed at the Salt Lake City No Kings protest by a “safety volunteer,” @utah50501.bsky.social says they hired team of them based on “military, first responder, other relevant de-escalation experience.” Volunteer who fired gun was a vet. Full statement:

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I spoke to a dozen of activists inside Iran. They have one thing in common: They oppose the Israeli attacks and they want the war to stop. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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A “shift” never happened. A chaotic raid at a worksite and a warrantless sweep in our communities have the same outcome. Bullshit rhetoric aside, they’re hunting us down while we’re trying to feed you. Who’s actually in charge?

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Lmao 🥰 Cynthia Nixon www.instagram.com/reel/DK-aPsy...

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There are widespread reports of ICE agents abducting people while masked, without warrants or identification. Due to recent events, we strongly advise: do not open your door or car for anyone you don’t know. That’s the message. No need to elaborate.

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July 17, 2025 Good Trouble Lives On! Details coming soon for San Diego.

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No love for my spouse’s OKC 🏀 dad joke? 😆

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An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

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Spouse: when you look in the mirror, do you see a 🏀 MVP? 🤔 He continues: AGS➡️SGA backwards 🤣. His humor is cute but it takes me a bit to get!

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